New Japanese Beast Hunters and EG Ligions Preorders Now Up at TFsource!

By BaCon on Tuesday, January 22, 2013

TFsource have received confirmation from Takara/Tomy on the Japanese Beast Hunters figures, as well as the EG series including confirmed pricing. For the Beast Hunters Takara hasn’t released any new pictures hinting at what type of different coloration their figures will include from the Hasbro figures, but the EG figures do reveal they are as many guessed, the prior legends molds plus a couple of Beast Hunters Cyberverse Legion figures All are set for an April release.
Preorders can be found at TFsource.com

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